Margaret Preston b. 29 April 1875

Also known as Margaret Rose McPherson, Rose McPherson, Margaret Rose Macpherson, Margaret Rose Preston, Margaret Macpherson
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Ceramist)
Margaret Preston specialised in still life subjects, seeking to reinvent the genre, with inspiration from Aboriginal art and Australian native flowers, but she also made landscapes, and painted an introspective self-portrait. Her hand-coloured woodcuts and linocuts are a modernist interpretation of what is often thought of as traditional women's subject matter.
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exhibited at
New South Wales Society of Artists
Place
Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
New English Art Club
Place
London, England, UK
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Royal Academy
Place
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, England, UK
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Society of Women Artists
Place
London, England, UK
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Ocean to Outback: Australian landscape painting 1850-1950
Date
2007 - 2009
Place
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
Description

Touring exhibition curated by National Gallery Director, Ron Radford.

Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.nga.gov.au/AboutUs/press/OceanToOutback.cfm
exhibited at
The Australian Landscape
Date
1972 - 1973
Place
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

“The Australian Landscape” was a national touring exhibition organised by the Australian Gallery Directors’ Council in 1972. The organising gallery was the Art Gallery of South Australia, and the curators were Daniel Thomas (Art Gallery of New South Wales) Ian North (Art Gallery of South Australia) and Frances McCarthy [later Lindsay] (National Gallery of Victoria). Generous funding from the Peter Stuyvesant foundation enabled the curators to travel the country together in order to make considered judgements.
The exhibition opened at the Art Gallery of South Australia on 3 March 1972, and toured to the Western Australian Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Australian National Gallery (temporary premises), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Newcastle City Art Gallery, and the Queensland Art Gallery.
The catalogue introduction claims that the exhibition comprised of 'fifty-five of the best Australian landscapes ever executed’. It was characterised by a breadth of vision, with works from every state – including regional galleries and private collections. It is distinguished by having a greater emphasis on colonial works than previous exhibitions, and elevating the reputation of Eugene Von Guerard and John Glover.
There were only two works by women – Grace Cossington Smith and Margaret Preston– and none by any Aboriginal artist.

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
solo show
Date
1929
Place
Grosvenor Gallleries, Sydney, NSW
Description

Also: 1936 and 1953

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
New South Wales Society of Artists
Date
1928
Place
Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Margaret Preston and Thea Proctor
Date
1925
Place
Grosvenor Gallleries, Sydney, NSW
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Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Old Salon
Date
1905
Place
Paris, France
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Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
New Salon
Date
1902
Place
Paris, France
Type
Exhibition

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